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A California college-readiness program that aims to reduce the numbers of students who need remediation before enrolling in college English and math classes seems to be working, according to a study. Extrapolating data from one California State University campus across the entire system reveals that some 2,000 fewer students may need remedial math and 3,000 fewer may need remedial English.

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High-school students who achieve a college-readiness score on the 2015 Smarter Balanced assessment will be permitted to skip remedial coursework at nearly 200 colleges and universities under a new agreement. The schools, in six states, will allow students who achieve a 4 on the test to immediately enroll in credit-bearing classes.

Texas elementary-school teacher Kerry Haupert offers her students a haven as they learn about school and English for the first time. A U.S. State Department program has relocated hundreds of refugees to the San Antonio area, prompting one elementary-school principal to create the special "newcomer" program that Haupert teaches.

As California began receiving $3.1 billion in education stimulus funds, the state's top education officials announced plans to use the money to drive reform. "If we are going to do right by our kids and take advantage of this wave of change, then everything must be on the table, and we need to bring both teachers and management to that table to come up with creative solutions that benefit all students," said state Superintendent Jack O'Connell.

Liberal-leaning U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned claims by Arizona state officials that the state's English-language-learner programs no longer need court oversight, in the first such case the court has considered since 1973.

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